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I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#21

It could've been funny, but every second of this video reminds me of my own experiences of dealing with the government services.

I love one of the top comments on the video:

> I love how Kit has evolved over the years to find out the best way of making scammers go crazy is to treat them basically the same way Comcast treats their customers.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#22

IMO this is way better than what the other scambaiter Pierogi did recently. I'm refering to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUHFpfVPUYc In the beginning it seems okay, have a bunch of people pretend to be victims and waste scammers time, but later on with starting to deploy malware and zero-days, spying on people with their web cam... Just because scammers break the law doesn't mean we have to stoop to th…

No sympathy for those scum. If it was your low-income parents being scammed of their life savings, you wouldn’t either. No one is stopping these criminals. There is no legal system to pursue them. They operate largely outside of any repercussions. No sympathy for those scum.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#23

"Why did you redeem it?!" Kitboga is a youtube national treasure.

there are certain phrases that when i read them, i hear the voice of specific people saying them in specific ways. typically this is movie phrases, but "why did you do that?!?!?!" from one of the scammers is now in my head.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He only gives scammers the QR code that leads into his gauntlet. Normal people shouldn't be stumbling into this, as it requires a fake QR code from a fake Bitcoin ATM receipt. This also lures the scammers in as they believe they will receive (someone else's) Bitcoin.

but if you had a sample qr code (or even just the basic url?) you could start trolling innocents, no?

Design it well and innocents can be identified quickly and directed to real people who can help them out, as what happened in this video at the end.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He only gives scammers the QR code that leads into his gauntlet. Normal people shouldn't be stumbling into this, as it requires a fake QR code from a fake Bitcoin ATM receipt. This also lures the scammers in as they believe they will receive (someone else's) Bitcoin.

but if you had a sample qr code (or even just the basic url?) you could start trolling innocents, no?

sure, but you won't be scamming them, so it's all in fun troll spirit. frankly, i've met some asshats in the real world that i wouldn't mind pulling pranks like this on.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

#30
I love Kitboda's videos. The one thing that strikes me all the time is how arrogant, smug, full of themselves these scammers always sound. They do profoundly believe they're oh-so-intelligent and don't hesitate to make fun of the old people they (think they) are speaking to.

Despicable scum of this earth.

Thanks to Kitboga for fighting the good fight and it's great to see banks and crypto-exchanges immediately freezing the accounts reported by Kitboga.

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